Saturday, 13 June 2015

Comrade Xi’s Purge - WSJ

Xi Jinping is a nasty man. I've been saying that for some time. Here's The Journal in what is an old-style Party Purge, not part of the anti-corruption he'd have us believe:

China's internal power struggle continues. That's the meaning of Thursday's announcement that former Politburo Standing Committee Member Zhou Yongkang was sentenced to life in prison for corruption....

"...it is the duty of those who have accepted Islam to strive unceasingly to convert or subjugate those who have not. This obligation is without limit of time or space. It must continue until the whole world has either accepted the Islamic faith or submitted to the power of the Islamic state."

-- Bernard Lewis, renowned historian of Islam and the Middle East, in The Political Language of Islam, p72-3.

In other words:

"Islam is unique among religions of the world in having a developed doctrine, theology and legal system that mandates warfare against unbelievers."